S8 Ep551: 2. Jeremy Zakis explains Australia’s T20 World Championship exit and critiques England’s expensive, aggressive "Bazball" strategy. He notes lessons learned for the struggling Australian national side. (27)V

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This is the Friends Minister Debating Society. Crank! Both the five-day test cricket and the T-20

over-and-three-hour cricket are in the news again. Australia can't get over winning three

ashes in a row so the trash talk continues, but T-20 has humbled Australia. We'll begin with T-20.

Jeremy Australia is out of the T-20 World Championship. What's happened?

Well, John now, our foe, our nemesis at England, are also now out of the T-22, but not without a fight,

and we really picked once the Australian side was out, and they were contenders for the T-20

Championship this year initially, until they were completely disastrous and fell out in the

first round. But England was then our next bet that they would probably be the winners

followed by India. Well, this week it turns out that England has just been knocked out by India,

and won't be going through, which means that India will be playing New Zealand in the finals,

and it'll be sorted out by there. But the great news is, in some ways, is that when England was knocked

out, it was not an easy fight. England and India were very, very closely matched teams. In fact,

the overall runs scored in the T-20 game there, which is, when you think about it, it's only

about four hours of play, was 490 diets as a very high-scoring game in India, and England only lost

by seven runs. They got 246 to India's 253. So what that's telling us is that England and India

were very, very closely matched, and the way that the T-20, I guess you say, progression works,

is actually score-based. So New Zealand, which is not a very, very strong team, really has

gotten through to the final based on the scoring and the seeding and who they played in the early

games, which means it'll be interesting to see if India and England are such a close in New Zealand

as such a closely matched game, because New Zealand is not quite as good as England. But at the same

time too, it tells us everything we thought about England, everything we thought about India being

the two top T-20 sides was true. For such a close game to come down to just seven runs, which in

any cricket game, even a T-21 is an absolutely amazing game. It tells us that the English side

are good, but you know what, I mean, as much as I hate to admit it being Australian, we were

kind of proud of where England got to in the T-20, especially since we got out, but at the same

time too, a part of us is kind of happy that they haven't got through because of course,

they are always our main rivals. Bazzball will not leave the room. It was invented by, well,

the inventor who's claiming it is Brendan McCulloch, but it doesn't work Jeremy. What is the

fascination? The fascination is that there are so much invested in Bazzball by the English side,

and English cricket selectors, the teams, everybody who's ever looked at it, talked about it in

England. They just won't let it go. And honestly, there is actually a dollar value associated with

it too, because Bazzball is not just about turning up and playing a style of cricket. Bazzball is

about getting different types of coaches in. It's actually about learning a different style of cricket,

so it actually has a lot of clinics, which cost a lot of money associated with it, and a lot of

additional strategising where they've actually brought in advisors to the English team at great

cost to make this thing work. So it has cost literally millions and millions of pounds to bring in

and bring into the English cricket ethos, but they just won't let it go. And Brendan McCulloch

this week again, he's throwing his support behind it. He says the ashes that was an anomaly,

it was probably more the team's application of Bazzball, not Bazzball itself, that ran it into

the ground. And honestly, as Brendan talks about it too, he does say something's in tongue and

cheek. So we know that he understands there are some problems with it, but that just won't go

away. But he is pointing out some really interesting things that I think are coming through, Bazzball,

in that it is very well suited for the T20, the short game, the way you don't have to worry about

a five-day test, you're playing just for a few hours, and you can be aggressive, you can have

so much energy in it, you can do very offensive tactics. So there is something in it, and I think

that's, and that really is what he's saying. So he's not exactly wrong, but I honestly don't,

I still say that Bazzball's not completely broken, but still very broken, and the fact that I

don't want to stick to it and continue losing games is interesting in itself. I like the idea

that Bazzball would work at T20, so does anybody talk about using a T20? In fact, the English side

has been, it's been, it's not as, I guess you could say, it hasn't been as promoted as much as

the Bazzball Inclusion into the Ashes, into the five-day test series, where it was really

revolutionary to play this non-cursctive style of cricket, and that was going to overturn the

cricket world. But the reality is that Bazzball was trialled in its very early days through T20

strategies, and it continues on today, so it had a much softer start, it wasn't called Bazzball

initially in T20, it was just when Brendan McCulloch introduced it to really the five-day test

side that it was suddenly this revolutionary thing, but people don't talk about it as much,

because it's just the aggressive style of the English team has been Bazzball for most of the

last few years in T20, it's just naturally moved in there, so that's where it's very interesting,

people don't give it credit in T20, whereas actually brought the English team up, they just want

to attack it, criticize it, including myself in the five-day test format where it hasn't done

well at all. So T20 is the silent winner, I guess you could say, in the Bazzball story.

And what about the Australia T20 team? Are they reorganising? Are they drafting new players?

Has there been talk? There has been more talk, and it was, it's really as we thought, the cricket

selectors have admitted that there was some, I guess you could call experimentation with the mix

that they had on that side, they're younger players, they were devastated that the experiment didn't

pay off in some ways that you had a lot of young players on that side, that they should have done

very well, but they just didn't gel, but honestly, individually all those players have gone onto

the rest of their season, and some of them are really doing well in the state sides and in the state

competitions, and a lot of them will go to the five-day test format in the coming months, so

as much as I had to say, we're just trying to forget about that one now, the cricket selectors have

admitted that things did go wrong, and you know what, we can do that next time, but I think this is

where you can actually flip it on his head, it did show us what a bad Australian T20 team looks like,

and not bad from the point of view of the individual player's skills, but just the fact that you have

to have team dynamics working, you have to have it's working strategy before everything can come in

the place, so a lot of lessons have been learned, but we, it seems like cricket Australia just wants

to move on now from this. The adventures of Dallas, the Spoodle and the cockatoo's and the minibirds

and the magpies, with Jeremy Zackas in New South Wales, Dallas is waiting just off the wings

to come on stage and explain himself. This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society, I'm John Baschler.

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